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George Bowering goes down to the ol’ swimming hole.
The first of John Harris’s series-in-progress, “Poet and Son,” is about Geoffrey and Lewis Chaucer.
Norbert Ruebsaat’s media students from around the world tell him how they watch television.
Stan Persky looks at the 2012-13 teaching season. Everything from “real education” to MOOCs and the Virtual U.
George Bowering, as a kid, encountering death and poetry in the Southern Okanagan Valley..
In Norbert Ruebsaat’s Media Studies column, a teacher and student discuss “God.”
What are those students doing, under the table, down in their laps? Norbert Ruebsaat investigates.
The U.S.-led war in Iraq marks its tenth anniversary. How does what the media said about it then stand up today? Dooney’s takes The Orwell Test.
Tim Parks travels to the end of his mind in search of a little peace and quiet.
Stephen Marche thinks it’s the Golden Age of reading and writing. Howard Jacobson thinks readers are disappearing and fiction is “fooked” (as they say in England). Stan Persky investigates.